First pick
Parc du Puy d'or
Park or garden
4.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.9 km southfrom the center
Chemin des RobiniersChemin des Roseaux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Beuvave · CC BY-SA 3.030%woodland
Outdoors in Limonest · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Limonest is within 800 m of a park or wood
Limonest has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 30% of Limonest. Footpaths add up to 27 km across Limonest (3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage, 9 km
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Puy d'or
Throughout this page, the Rhône median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Limonest?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyPelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage (Natura 2000) is 9 km from the town center.
What sets Limonest apart: its hiking routes, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Limonest compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
73out of 100
Hiking routes1.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
95out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Limonest has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,992 to 4,036 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Sévérac d'Aveyron (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Montsoult Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 42% | 0.9% | 129 km |
| 3 | Montmélian Savoie | 4.3 | 47% | 100% | 222 km |
| 4 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 3.8 | 32% | 0% | 189 km |
| 5 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 6 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 7 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 8 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 9 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 10 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 11 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 12 | La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois Charente | 1.6 | 39% | 16% | 95 km |
| 13 | Rives-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 42% | 100% | 28 km |
| 14 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 15 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 16 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 17 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 18 | Salernes Var | 1.2 | 68% | 26% | 42 km |
| 19 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 20 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 21 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 22 | Nogent-le-Roi Eure-et-Loir | 1.1 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 23 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 24 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 25 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 26 | Masny Nord | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 27 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 28 | Bourg-Achard Eure | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 34 km |
| 29 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 31 | Raimbeaucourt Nord | 0.7 | 16% | 99% | 83 km |
| 32 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 33 | Fay-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.9% | 0% | 31 km |
| 34 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 35 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 36 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 37 | Bressols Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3% | 0.6% | 173 km |
| 38 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 39 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 40 | Beauvoir-sur-Mer Vendée | 0.3 | 0.3% | 83% | On it |
| 41 | Sévérac d'Aveyron Aveyron | 0.2 | 24% | 100% | 114 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Limonest
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Puy d'or leads, at 4.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage is the nearest protected area, 9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage
9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
27 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Limonest
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
27 km
3 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.9 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 2.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LimonestRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths3
Hiking routes1.9
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LimonestRhône medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Limonest is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
17 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour intérieur des Monts d'Or15 km
Tour de Lyon, du Fort du Paillet à la Saône13 km
Tour de Saint-Didier11 km
Grand Tour des Monts d'Or10 km
Sentier Géologie et Paysage8 km
Sentier Secret des Pierres et du Patrimoine6.8 km
Promenade de Rochecardon4.9 km
Limonest, le centre incontournable4.8 km
Tour de Lyon, du Fort du Bruissin au Fort du Paillet4.1 km
Au coeur des Monts d'Or4.1 km
Du mont Thou au mont Cindre3.8 km
Sentier de l'Homme et du Paysage3.7 km
+5 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Limonest: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pommiers, 15 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 38 | 45 | 58 | 73 | 70 | 76 | 73 | 70 | 86 | 85 | 54 |
February is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 86 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Limonest →
Neighbors
Next to Limonest
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DardillySaint-Didier-au-Mont-d'OrLissieuChampagne-au-Mont-d'OrSaint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'OrCouzon-au-Mont-d'OrLimonest
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limonest | 0% | 30% | 3 |
| Dardilly 9,221 · 2.5 km | 0% | 20% | 2.8 |
| Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or 7,435 · 3.1 km | 0% | 20% | 2.7 |
| Lissieu 3,181 · 3.4 km | 0% | 19% | 2 |
| Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or 6,311 · 4.1 km | 0% | 15% | 3.3 |
| Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or 6,327 · 4.2 km | 0% | 21% | 2.4 |
| Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or 2,619 · 4.6 km | 0% | 42% | 7.2 |
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Limonest
Is Limonest in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage, 9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Limonest?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Limonest is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Limonest near the sea?
No: the coast is 258 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Limonest?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.